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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Nature and Aim of Fiction, Writing Short Stories and On Her Own Work.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was O'Connor told should be the model of balance for the novelist?
(a) Euripides.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Dante.
(d) Plato.

2. What award did Percy Walker win?
(a) Regional Book Prize.
(b) National Novelist Award.
(c) National Book Award.
(d) Georgia Writers Grant.

3. What does O'Connor say there are more of in the South than rivers and streams?
(a) Preachers.
(b) Critics.
(c) Farmers.
(d) Writers.

4. Besides the telephone repairman, who did O'Connor say is indifferent to the peacock's display?
(a) Children.
(b) The peahen.
(c) Floridians.
(d) Old women.

5. What did the telephone repairman say he thought O'Connor's peacock could outrun?
(a) A bus.
(b) A roadrunner.
(c) A cheetah.
(d) An Oldsmobile.

Short Answer Questions

1. Thomas Mann said that the grotesque is what style?

2. Which of O'Connor's relatives refused to accept that her story about a man who leaves his wife at an eatery was complete?

3. What color was the helmet of the telephone repairman that came to O'Connor's farm?

4. What item of clothing did Colonel Eggbert wear?

5. How long does it take for a cock's plumage to attain its pattern?

(see the answer key)

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